They accomplished an auditory paced finger sequence tapping task, which challenged cognitive as well as executive aspects of motor functioning by varying speed and complexity of movements.
We used brain potentials to assess executive aspects of memory in OCD by contrasting EF and EL-learning.
These findings indicate that memory problems in OCD might be related to executive aspects of memory, such as meta-memory decisions about whether or not an associatively retrieved item has indeed been encountered before, rather than to deficits within the memory system proper.
This dual task situation necessitates the adequate allocation of attentional resources to each of the two tasks and thus probes executive aspects of attention.
Both studies demonstrated that blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) activity in dorsolateral or inferior frontal cortex was influenced by executive aspects of ambiguity resolution unlike temporal cortex.
Damage to pMTG thus evokes problems in executive aspects of meaning retrieval and not loss of semantic knowledge per se (as in SA patients).
